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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFTOE.

LUCIEN MOSS AND VLLIAM YVILER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

GAS-LIGHTER.

Specification of Letters PatentNo. 13,134, dated June 26, 1855.

To all wh-0m z't may concern:

Be it known that we, LUCIEN Moss and l/VILLIAM VVILER, both of the cityof Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, trading together under thefirm-name of VVILER & Moss, have jointly invented a new and ImprovedMode of Turning On and Lighting Gas; and we do hereby declare that thefollowing is a true, full, and exact description of the same.

The nature of our invention consists in making a portable instrument forat the same time turning on gas; lighting gas, and carry matches, whichavoids the use of oil, spirits or fluid, of any kind, and dispenses withthe necessity of filling, or any attention whatsoever. And we proceed toconstruct it as follows:

We take a tube A of brass or other metal the edges of which are broughtjust so near together as will allow a catch of metal B to run easilybetween them.

The catch is made, in the shape and form shown in Figures O, D, on thedrawings hereto annexed, O being a sectional View, and D, a lateral View0f the same, so that the ends of the catch a a when placed inside thetube form a sort of forceps, which will hold a taper placed therein.This tube catch for holding the taper is then inserted in a groove, cuton one side, at the end of a stick, or, rod E, of wood; or othersubstance. This forms the lighting part of the apparatus. A turner orwrench similar to Fig. F, of metal is then inserted into the same end ofthe rod E, E, as the tube is; and a boX of metal, G, or other substanceincloses the other end of the rod to hold the matches.

We are aware that the taper, tube, and turner have been heretoforeseparately used, and therefore we do not claim lhenl.

What we claim and desire to secure by Letters Pat-ent is The arrangementas herein described of sliding spring catch taper and wrench with theholder for the purpose set forth.

LUCIEN MOSS. WM. WILER. Witnesses:

JOHN N. MARLEY,

WILLIAM R. BALDWIN.

